Yingda Cheng honored by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Yingda Cheng, mathematics professor in the Virginia Tech College of Science, was recently named the recipient of the 2023 Germund Dahlquist Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was recognized at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which took place in Tokyo in late August.
The Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded every two years to an individual for original contributions to numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing.
“I have long been inspired by the work of many pioneers in numerical analysis, including previous Germund Dahlquist prize winners,” said Cheng. “It is a great honor for me to receive this award and learn that our work has been recognized by the community.”
Cheng, who was a faculty member at Michigan State University before arriving at Virginia Tech this fall, was honored for her work on discontinuous Galerkin methods, including structure preservation and sparse grid methods for kinetic and transport equations.
“With the advances in computing hardware and software platforms, we are now more likely to have an accurate depiction of large-scale complex physical behaviors happening in nature,” said Cheng, an affiliate faculty member in the computational modeling and data analytics program. “Advanced numerical solvers are crucial to take advantage of the modern-day computing resources and designing such novel numerical schemes is where my work lies.”
The ultimate goal for Cheng and her collaborators is to create schemes that can assist the numerical simulations of challenging problems — nuclear fusion, star formation, and other complex physical processes — that cannot be handled by traditional numerical solvers.
“I am very proud of our work, and I want to acknowledge my students, postdocs, and collaborators who have contributed significantly to many aspects of the projects,” said Cheng.
“We are thrilled for Professor Cheng to receive this award and the well-deserved acclaim that comes with it,” said Sarah Reznikoff, chair of the Department of Mathematics. “Her research profile is an asset to our department, and we are greatly looking forward to seeing her future work at Virginia Tech.”
